Triple Transit and Mutual Events
These three panels feature the Solar System’s rulinggas giant Jupiteron August 15 as seen from Cebu City, Phillipines, planet Earth.On that date thewell-timed telescopic viewsdetail some remarkable performances,transits and mutual events, by Jupiter’s Galilean moons.In the top panel,Iois just disappearing into Jupiter’s shadow atthe far right, but the three other large Jovian moons appear against theplanet’s banded disk.
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